{"id":104188,"date":"2020-08-25T08:59:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T12:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=104188"},"modified":"2020-08-25T09:17:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T13:17:15","slug":"marines-want-to-combat-fake-profiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=104188","title":{"rendered":"Marines Want to Combat Fake Profiles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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According to a recent article posted by CISR4NET.com<\/a>, the Marines want a tool to help identify fake social media account that mimic senior military leaders.<\/p>\n

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Marines want tool to identify fake social media accounts posing as senior personnel<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Marine Corps wants a commercial off-the-shelf tool to identify\u00a0social media\u00a0accounts that pose a threat to personnel and the Marines Corps Enterprise Network.<\/p>\n

According to a request for quotation released Aug. 20, the goal of the effort is to identify \u201cevil twin\u201d social media accounts, or accounts pretending to be key personnel, general officers and senior executive service employees. The RFQ claimed these fake accounts are sending malicious links to service members, as well as extorting information and money while posing as key members of the Corps.<\/p>\n

The service\u2019s Deputy Commandant for Information Cybersecurity Branch needs an automated tool to supplement its ongoing work \u201ccrawling, discovery, and harvesting activities to protect the reputation\/privacy of United State Marine Corps\u201d on social networking sites.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I’m guessing that the only current ways to combat this are some tell-tell signs such as a low number of friends, a senior photo with the flag in the back and saying something out of character such as “me luv you long time.”<\/p>\n

Although many senior military members have a public presence, they rarely monitor it personally.\u00a0 Often it is by staff who have posted speeches, accomplishments and photos of recent ceremonial events.\u00a0 When they maintain a private profile, it is difficult to tell they are even in the military according to photos and information.<\/p>\n

Maybe I’m being short-sighted, but it is hard for me to see what is gained by these fake profiles unless there are many people that are easily fooled into giving up money in some scam.<\/p>\n

Although many of the people behind these fake profiles are beyond U.S. jurisdiction, the way to counter this is to simply report it to Facebook or whatever the social media platform is.\u00a0 They quickly go away and morph into another so it is a game of Whack-a-Mole.<\/p>\n

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Some helpful Crib Notes for the social media challenged among us:<\/p>\n

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